Hendrick v. Hendrick

The plaintiff-appellant was granted a divorce from the defendant-appellee on the grounds that the parties had lived separate and apart for six months and the resumption of marital relations was not reasonably probable. 15 V.S.A. § 551(7). The parties, first “married” in 1963, were legally married in 1968 due to a technical defect in the first ceremony. The trial court found that the parties had “lived in Windsor County, Vermont, for over fifteen (15) years.”

Neither party brought assets of any significant value into the marriage. Nonetheless, their standard of living continually improved…